{"id":187310,"date":"2026-07-02T10:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T10:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/187310\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T10:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T10:10:13","slug":"malaysia-to-send-minister-to-khamenei-funeral-in-tehran-says-anwar-iran-envoy-confirms-mat-sabu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/187310\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia to send minister to Khamenei funeral in Tehran, says Anwar; Iran envoy confirms Mat Sabu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">KUALA LUMPUR, July 2 \u2014 Malaysia will send a ministerial-level representative to attend the funeral of Iran\u2019s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran tomorrow, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anwar made the announcement after delivering his keynote address at the 39th Asia-Pacific Roundtable (APR) at the Grand Hyatt Kuala Lumpur today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ali Khamenei, 86, was Iran\u2019s second and longest-serving supreme leader before he was killed in an Israeli airstrike in February this year. His son, Mojtaba Khamenei, has since succeeded him as the Islamic republic\u2019s new supreme leader.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The funeral arrangements, however, were delayed until July due to the ongoing war involving US-backed Israeli forces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The funeral is expected to conclude with the leader\u2019s burial in his hometown, the northeastern holy city of Mashhad, on July 9, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Separately, Iranian ambassador to Malaysia Valiollah Mohammadi told Malay Mail that Agriculture and Food Security Minister Datuk Seri Mohamad Sabu would represent Malaysia at the funeral in Tehran tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cHe (Anwar) also conveyed his solidarity to the Iranian people and the President (Masoud Pezeshkian) and asked that I send a message on his behalf to the president that Muhammad Sabu will attend the funeral,\u201d Valiollah said when asked about Anwar\u2019s brief interaction with him at the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KUALA LUMPUR, July 2 \u2014 Malaysia will send a ministerial-level representative to attend the funeral of Iran\u2019s supreme&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[89,47202,56099,34,41162,56100,7391,2289,1974,69],"class_list":["post-187310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tehran","tag-ayatollah-ali-khamenei","tag-datuk-seri-anwar-ibrahim","tag-funeral-arrangements","tag-iran","tag-kuala-lumpur","tag-malay-mail","tag-malaysia","tag-mojtaba-khamenei","tag-supreme-leader","tag-tehran"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116849844123455146","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}